A Thermal Modeling to Predict and Control the Cutting Temperature. The Simulation of Face-milling Process

This paper presents a new procedure to evaluate the cutting temperature milling.in HSM. The study of the thermal behavior is important because the life expectancy of a cutting tool is limited by its temperature: the higher the temperature, the shorter its life. Tests made on many uncoated tools at stand still, after milling, have shown that there is an important drop for the temperature measured values. This is due to the ventilation phenomenon which was created by the rotation of the mill, which, in turn, requires the knowledge of the global overall coefficient of heat transfer at the tool interface as a function of the cutting conditions in order to predict the cutting temperature. The performance of the model is compared to the analytically and numerically (FEM) determined performance of a cutting tool with boundary conditions or to the experimentally determined performance and the results obtained are in good agreement [12].